Employed, unemployed and economically inactive persons (preliminary results of the Polish Labour Force Survey in the fourth quarter of 2025)
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In the fourth quarter of 2025, economically active persons accounted for 59.0% of the population aged 15-89. This share remained unchanged compared to the third quarter of 2025, but increased by 0.5 pp. compared to the same period of the previous year.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, the number of economically active persons aged 15-89 amounted to 17 912 thousand, of which: 17 346 thousand constituted employed persons, while 567 thousand – the unemployed. The population of economically inactive persons in this age group comprised 12 456 thousand persons.
Population of economically active persons remained at similar level compared to the third quarter of 2025 (in the fourth quarter of 2025, the number of economically active persons was lower by 11 thousand, i.e. by 0.1%), while it increased compared to the fourth quarter of 2024 (by 170 thousand, i.e. by 1.0%).
The LFS results refer to the resident population i.e. staying or intending to stay in the country’s territory for at least 12 months, living in households. Generalisation of the survey results over the general population has been carried out with the use of the data on resident population in Poland, coming from the balances, for which the basis (initial base) are the results of the Population and Housing Census 2021/National Census 2021. Data for the period from the first quarter of 2021 to the third quarter of 2023 was recalculated in line with the new generalisation basis. See methodological notes at the end of this news release.
